--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:

> I'm inferring that representing Turkish without a Turkish-inclusive

(?)

> font substitutes certain embedded caps, such as (apparently) "G"

for "ğ",

> and (perhaps) an "I" for "ı".

The "G" is a pretty standard ASCIIfied encoding of the sound of "ğ"
before it evanesced. "I" for "ı" is less standard - X-SAMPA
<http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm> calls for "1"
or "M", but "I" does get used for all sorts of modified /i/ sound.

Richard.